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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by dgellow on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:06AM (#35422092)
You don’t need 32GB of RAM to run Windows…
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by Dalewyn on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:14AM (#35422199)
No, but you do to run the things you're running Windows for.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by stinos on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:24AM (#35422331)
By that reasoning the new minimum is now 128GB for Ubuntu, just because I need that.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by Dalewyn on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:28AM (#35422372)
If you need 128GB of RAM, you need 128GB of RAM. Nothing unfair about that.

Personally, my newest main machine has 64GB of RAM (for now) simply because I never want to run out of RAM ever; RAM is cheap (when it ain't coming from Apple) and I hate dealing with swap thrashing.

Speaking more generally, I sincerely wouldn't suggest any lower than 32GB to any person asking for advice on a Windows setup today. Far too many programs demand far too much RAM now, with Chrome being just the leading example.

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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by secondcoming on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:33AM (#35423285)
My laptop has 128GB RAM. It's sweet, no regrets.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by Osiris on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:33PM (#35429046)
My daughter’s laptop is 8GB, my son’s is 16gb, my desktop is 16gb. I’ve never had a problem with any of them.

Lightroom Classic on my desktop uses less than 8GB of RAM.

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